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Health in the Victorian Era
Title: Health in the Victorian Era
Category: Literature / English
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Health in the Victorian Era
During the Victorian Era there were massive waves of contagious disease. The first was from 1831 to 1833, which included two influenza epidemics and the initial appearance of cholera. The second was from 1836 to 1842, which encompassed major epidemics of influenza, typhus, typhoid and cholera.
The first outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Britain was at Sunderland on the Durham coast during the autumn of 1831. From there the disease made its way northward into Scotland and southward toward London. …showed first 75 words of 2374 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2374 total…butter, and polluted meat were sold and consumed monthly throughout the kingdom.
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Mitchell, Sally. "Medical Practice" in Victorian Britain: an Encyclopedia
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Porter, Dale H., The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1998
Wohl, Anthony S., Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victoria Britain .1983
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